Highly praiseworthy (both the thread and the described 🇩🇪 gov‘t policy)

Quite a race going on, between supply and demand

„Trump would have the authority to remove members of the commission running the fund without cause, and the commission would be under no obligation to disclose its procedures or decision-making process for awarding more than a billion dollars“ abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Today in Washington,at 4:30PM Eastern time, a panel discussion of Moral Economics, in person or streamed live marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/mora...

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Is it a good idea to end supporting the social, behavioral and economic sciences? (Not just an academic question.)

The rampant and open corruption and grift are breathtaking.

„Willing Accomplices: Gazprom & Rosneft‘s Role in the Transport an Indoctrination of Ukraine‘s Children“ Report by Yale School of Public Health files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/68...

How competitive neutrality falls short: Our causal analysis reveals that state ownership systematically induces preferential treatment for public hospitals over private ones, a bias that becomes significantly more acute under the pressure of upcoming elections.

A serious worry about LLM papers: who wants to read them? You experience it in reviewing and in the grading of student term papers: once you know (or suspect) that the text was AI generated, you lose most interest in it. The human author is a big key to the perception of a text.

Labor econ opening in Berlin, deadline 17 May

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

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Very proud to become part of this excellent network of researchers in economics across different institutions in Berlin!

TU Berlin closed 👇🏼 Yes, we need more oomph in the public sector, including uni funds But not more oomph for health & safety officials, imho

📣 Deadline extended 📣 We are accepting applications for our Scholarship for Women until 11 May. We offer current and prospective master’s students a €10,000 grant and expert mentoring. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Join us today for two fascinating talks exploring behavior, norms, and decision-making! 1 - Ingela Alger (@ingelaalger.bsky.social) from the Toulouse School of Economics, presenting on the topic “Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences.”

How easy it is to lie www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Team Economy

Ouch! On subsized "go-anwhere" train tickets 👇🏼

"[S]uch a value judgment must be grounded in facts. The burden of substantiation is disproportionately higher when a state representative makes such a demeaning assessment of citizens." @pbahners.bsky.social's eloquent summary of the court ruling against a 🇩🇪 minister. 👇🏼 www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Ellingsen and Mohlin on how to formalize different kinds of duties - e.g. asking about the tradeoffabilility between a duty and its material cost. 👏🏼

Several political parties in 🇩🇪 look for the way out www.deutschlandfunk.de/gruene-spd-u...

Good news about battery installment in 🇩🇪 - capacity increase of 8% in only 3 months. Mostly large batteries. -> Less need for gas. www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...

Nice graph, and it defies our pessimism

The Carter Doctrine is gone, Hormuz is shut, OPEC is falling apart. The global oil economy is entering a new period of instability. And it's because of US action (or inaction). The consequences will be profound. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

A great thing about markets - they work even when policy doesn't

„Americans in the town spoke with affection about their German hosts“ I grew up nearby, and we happily return the compliment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Interesting strategy in 🇧🇪 - and financially risky. In 🇩🇪 most economists regret the exit from nuclear but views a return as too expensive.

Finance that the city needs: The @eib.org invests 500 Mio. € in affordable housing in #Berlin. The public enterprise #Howoge is going to build another ~3,200 residential units by 2029 with at least 50% of the new apartments for 7 €/sqm as social housing for low income households.

„Revenge against the chancellor“ Finally a positive headline for Merz www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...

This week‘s senseless war is in trade

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Dear 🇪🇺, please don‘t ever confuse love and money

Bumps in the road but feel welcome to stay Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/w...

Improvement, unambiguously

🧠RFBerlin Research Insight What happens after a far-right protest ends? Research by Sardoschau & Casanueva-Artís, studying PEGIDA and other right-wing organizations, shows hate crimes rise and spread. The culprit: visibility, not just the protest itself. Read here: www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...

Learning about the future

Timely - 🇩🇪‘s government agreed today to raise the tobacco tax, and here is Dirk Engelmann‘s true observation about the distributional asymmetry

„Science matters. […] And transitioning away from fossil fuels is a very tangible way to follow science.“

John Hicks, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and now it's your turn

Electrifying 🇫🇷 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Reminder that 🇪🇺 may want to step up

Just out 📢 How to get people to do their bit? A. appeal in positive words? B. appeal in negative words? C. no appeal at all? And what do policymakers expect? (Hint: Don't let us down by not reading about their false belief.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Germany ranks among the weakest EU performers in real private sector investment growth from 2000 to 2025 (+11.9%). Only Greece (−25.7%), Portugal (−1.1%), and Luxembourg (+1.0%) had lower growth. Highest private investment growth in Romania (+180.1%), Bulgaria, Malta, Lithuania

Re: throwing good money after bad 👇🏼

How to spot economists: they pay you for saying what you believe @valeriaburdea.bsky.social

Dear real estate economists, this looks serious - any predictions of the impact on house prices in Europe?